Robert Zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis
Robert Lee Zemeckis is an American filmmaker and screenwriter. Zemeckis is credited as one of the greatest "visual storytellers" in filmmaking and is a pioneer of visual effects. He has directed some of the biggest blockbuster hits of the past few decades. He first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of Romancing the Stoneand the science-fiction comedy Back to the Future film trilogy, as well as the live-action/animated comedy Who Framed Roger Rabbit. In the 1990s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth14 May 1952
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Robert Zemeckis quotes about
Everybody who's backing this facility understands what's happening,
Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.
The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.
I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.
We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.
We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.
I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.
From where I sit I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot of money.
I think the thing that I love the most about working in the digital cinema is that you're only limited in your cinematic technique by your imagination - you're not restricted by the physical laws of nature. You don't have to worry about physically moving a 50lb camera through space, or worry about shadows and rigging.
Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.
I've always said that movies are kind of like love affairs. Two people come together, and if they're at the right place at the right time and it's the right situation, it clicks. I've always felt that I've connected with screenplays. It's the romantic in me.